States Quotes

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.

Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?

Next to being one in worshipping God there is nothing in this world upon which the Church should be more united that in upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States

Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.

Every cook must learn to rule the State.

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.

I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

Don't people know that they don't have to heckle the president of the United States? That's what Congress is for.

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there

Character is the only secure foundation of the state.

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.

Sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalisation.

It's a shame to see drug dealers enter and leave the United States as if nothing in addition to those that purchase weapons and firearms.

We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear weapons and related facilities.

At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States

Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .

States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves.

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment.

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.

The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.

We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.

The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

I would be the worst president in the history of the United States. Unless you want the apocalypse to happen really soon then yes, I'll run for president.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

We don't have mad cow disease. We probably never will have mad cow disease, and therefore, it's a non-problem in the United States.

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.

Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.

I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.

The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.

People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States.